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To Los Angeles, where the late Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer wins a victory for dignity, making him one-for-three after failing to secure custody of her remains, and failing to have produced the sperm that fathered the gazillion-dollar heiress's daughter.

An American singer and reality TV star has been signed to play Anna Nicole Smith in a biopic of the starlet, who died earlier this year. Willa Ford, who scored a hit single with I Wanna Be Bad in 2001, is to the star in the indie production. Keoni Waxman will direct.

If there was ever a woman that needed an opera of her life, that woman would be Anna Nicole Smith. Unsurprisingly there's an online wake for her on web video sites and a clip of her at an awards show is the most linked-to video this week. Anna looks a little worse for wear.